by Joachim C. Fest.  

First published in Germany in 1973.  This is the 1974 translation into English by Richard and Clara Winston.

5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches.

875 pages.

Book of the month club edition.

The author, Mr. Fest, was born in 1926 and was drafted into the German army in World War II at the age of 15.  He was captured and served for two years in an American prison of war camp.  He later worked as a journalist for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"...it tells and interprets the extraordinary dramatic story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence and insignificance to a brief period of absolute power...Though a warped human being, [Hitler] was neither clown nor puppet...Hitler appears as an enormously astute politician, impressing and hypnotizing Germans and foreigners alike with the scope of his projects, the theatricality of their presentation."

Thank you!